Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-10-07
His Inclination to Dispense With
Hand Shaking Proves Distaste-
full to His Admirers.
A Public Reception Given by Mrs.
Cleveland at the Residence of
James kneeland.
The Party Banqueted by the Mer.
chants at the Plankinton in
the Evening.
Scenes and Incidents.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 1.-Day break found
the presidents train in western Ohio.
About 1000 persons were waiting at Colum-
bus, but it was too early for the president.
Between Bradford Junction and Richmond
Ind, the president experienced his first
shave on a railroad train. He allowed that
it was good shave. At Richmond, Pa,
a very large crowd greeted the president,
who snOok hands with as many as he
could. The programme was repeated at
Cambridge.
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
The train reached Indianapolis on time.
The distinguished party was driven in pro-
cession the capitol. The scene up Wash
ing street was one of great magnifcence
and enthusiasm was unbounded. In the
course of his speech the president reviewed
the history of Indianapolis in way which
showed him fatteringly familiar with the
good points of the Hoosier capital. He
paid glowing tribute to the memory of
Mr. Hendricks.
After the speeches the citizens passed
through the rotunda in files of three
Several hundred were left waiting. At 1:30
O'Clock the president and wife and immedi-
ate party called upon Mrs. Hendricks,
where an elegant lunch was provided very
the further march 1t was 2:S0 before the
procession again started, going north on
Meridian street to ex-senator McDonald's
house, where Mrs. Mcdonald had prepared
lunch and invited party of sixty to sit
down with the distinguished guests. After
taken up for the union depot, where they
arrived shortly after $3.50 and as soon as
possible started for Terra Haute.
Two or three thousand persons were
sembled at the station
AT GREEN CASTLE, IND,
and paid their respects voceferously as
the train ran past at slow rate. A long
train load of Grand Army men stood on
siding, the passengers in which crowded
its platforms and windows and waved and
shouted their salutes.
AT TERRE HAUTE.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, Oct. lat Terre
Haute station severrl thousand persons
thronged the track and platforms and
made the Decentralization of the party a
difficult and somewhat dangerous proceed
ing The president was received by Sen
ator Voorhees,, Ex-Secretary Thompson
and committee. and with his companions
was driven to the normal school building,
in front of which stand had been erected.
1t was dark before the procession reached
the stand and the time for the departure
of the train was already past. The great
square contained, as nearly as could be
estimated by the glare of the electric
lights, more than 10000 persons. Ex-Sec-
retary Thompson delivered the address OF
welcome, to which the president replied,
dwelling upon the resources of the Wabash
valley. At the conclusion of the speeches
the visitors were again escorted to their
carriages and as soon as they could be
freed from the multitude drove rapidly to
the depot and took the train for st. Louis.
The measure OF enthusiasm created by the
presence of the chief magistrate is found
in the fact told by railroad people that not
less than 5000 people had been brought in
by trains to-day, many OF them from a
distance of fifty or sixty miles, merely to
look at him for the brief half hour of his
stay, and this they had done knowing that
for half their number there would be no
returning trains till Monday.
EN- ROUTE.
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 1.-There were bonfires,
torches, and Chinese lantern displays and
brass band serenades at nearly all the sta
tions between Terre Haute and st. Louis.
1t was not intended that stops should be
made. but the locomotive seemed to need
water or oil at very short intervals and
wherever q stop was made multitude was
found waiting. The president
ARRIVED AT EAST ST. LOUIS
at l145 p. III. and alighted at the east
abutment of the bridge on the Illinois side